She tapped her foot rapidly, a secret smile playing on her lips. Every single part of her body was buzzing with happy excitement. She was practically bubbling over with glee, wanting to burst out of her skin. She imagined the looks on everyone's faces when she walked in; their surprise, their delight. It was a beautiful thought. She adjusted the bow in her hair, and headed towards the event. Instead, there was a hushed atmosphere. She was met with a downcast face who told her, "It's all off." The smile slowly faded.

Emotion: joyful

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.96 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -0.67

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion joyful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 joyful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the joyful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the joyful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
la0.615
de0.600
!0.572
excitedly0.552
enthusi0.533
Suppressed:
S-0.893
ness-0.513
😞-0.470
😣-0.337
L-0.334